I am trying to access an element in my Edge Animate animation (which is a menu bar) from the parent document. The element has an onClick event which is triggered depending on the #bookmark in the URL of the parent web page. My code works perfectly in Firefox but does not work in Internet Explorer(10). IE is unable to see any elements within the 'Stage' div whereas Firefox can.

The issue was that the menu animation has a preloader. Firefox ignores the preloader whereas IE treats the preloader as onLoad being complete. Therefore the attempt to access the element ID is null as it hasn't been loaded yet.

I decided to approach the problem from a different tack and read my bookmark from within the animation. This turned out to be a very simple solution once I figured out that I had to put the code in the first frame of the animation NOT in creationComplete or compositionReady.